Tuesday, November 20, 2007!
HandWritten on; 12:38 AM
hello world. :)
haha i dont have any photos of jiayi meijie xianhuan and i at work so have to depend on jiayi hahaha so yeah the above photo is the two of us in our waitressing uniform! hahaha :)
worked 6 days last week, ponned work on thur because we were REALLY tired and went back again on friday. okaaay so these few days of working have really taught me some stuff like working with people you barely knowww, getting shouted at by managers, getting irritated with demanding guests. work is really not easy, and im really glad i learnt some stuff. so far i have been paired with xianhuan twice, and the other partners are quite alright except for one.. so im quite glad. hope to work with those pros so can slack. :D and and we made some friends over there too so :) :)
ALOT of hwachong people will be working there in the coming weeks, we saw so many groups of hc people in meritus mandarin these few days preparing for the work and all, jiayi and i were saying during school, hwachong is our second home. when it comes to the holidays, our second home becomes meritus mandarin hotel hahaha.
have been reaching home at insane hours, like 1 plus 2 am or once even 3 am. some people over there are also not really friendly and helpful, so sometimes really really have to depend on ourselves. at first it feels very helpless but i guess thats the true side to life. oh weelll.
(okaay you can ignore this paragaph its basically about the working haha) the whole working experience is really so much, i dont know where to start haha. everyday we reach town at around 330 to 4, changed, eat dinner (hopefully if we have enough time) and rush up to the ballroom/mandarin court/belvedere. there we will gather for a briefing by the manager and then the manager will do the pairing, 2 people to serve 3 tables. then proceed to prepare our side stations, prepare tray jacks, take the trays, take the serving gear, the jugs for the soft drinks, metal cans for chinese tea, an INSANE number of plates (to change plate) which we must RUSH to get in case they run out cause everyone's taking about 120 of them. and one of the partners have to go out to serve cocktail or canopy :) and then when people start arriving at your tables, pour chinese tea and unfold their napkin and put it on their laps. hahaha and you wait for dinner to start, march in with the first course (this part is rather cool hahaha) and yeah rush serving, pouring chinese tea, take soft drinks, red wine or beer from the barmen the whole night. :) i like working weddings cause there's a cheery atmosphere, everyone's celebrating and happy happy! and im kinda used to it haha as in the style. only did dinner&dance once and it was quite rowdy and ALOT of beer :x :x hates buffets. haha i hope to be working at some prom dinners the next few weeks! think it will be quite interesting. :D :D oh oh and sometimes when you're not so busy, can take some time to steal food. :D which the pro waiters taught us heheehhe and though we see almost the same food every night, the food is still good! :)
that night after suppering (again), when we walked out of the canteen i saw this quote on the noticeboard, "sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least." VERY TRUE. :)
went for dan's prac this morning after reaching home at 1 plus 2 am again last night. it was sooo tiringggggg :( :( and somemore we worked both the afternoon and night shifts on sunday. then had self prac for our geting trip dance. okaay at least this time round we did something :) and and and we celebrated thomas's birthday,
happy birthday thomas! :D :D
couldnt come online these few days cause didnt have a com table :x hahaha crazy reason i know. my room is too small for a tableeee :( then if i use the com i have to fix the whole cpu and desktop and later unplug everything again and put them in the box, so i was lazy, VERY lazy. and didnt have the time because of work tooo. but finally managed to persuade my sister to put the com in her room so yeah :D
oh ya, I MOVED HOUSE ALREADY. :D :D happy.
busy busy week again, only working two days, so sad no moneyyyy :( but still, the week is packed with dance pracs, outings with the work gang (jiayi xianhuan meijie) yeay i love the 3 of us :D and i think pw group outing? hehehehe and yeah, rest. :)
haha i finally updated my blog, hope the insane number of words didnt kill :( goodnight world.
